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When porcupines are mating, they tighten their skin and hold their quills flat, so as not to injure each other. Mating may occur repeatedly until the female loses interest and climbs back into the tree. The North American porcupine has a long gestation period relative to other rodents, an average of 202 days. [38]
Punchy the porcupine is an African Crested Porcupine, the largest kind in the world. Though the quills look scary, he’s actually a sweet little guy, who likes pats from his keeper (on his head ...
Most porcupines are about 60–90 cm (25–36 in) long, with a 20–25 cm (8–10 in) long tail. Weighing 5–16 kg (12–35 lb), they are rounded, large, and slow, and use an aposematic strategy of defence. Porcupines' colouration consists of various shades of brown, grey and white.
In the wild, porcupines often live up to eighteen years, most of it in a solitary manner (except when mating or caring for offspring, as Thistle is doing here with her adopted porcupette ...
Next we see a black and white porcupine crawling up the man who was recording the video's leg - it wants to see what is going on next door and maybe even join in! What a cute video of this ...
In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction. Fertilization is the fusion of two ...
Stories in popular literature indicate that fishers can flip a porcupine onto its back and "scoop out its belly like a ripe melon". [29] This was identified as an exaggerated misconception as early as 1966. [30] Observational studies show that fishers make repeated biting attacks on the face of a porcupine and kill it after about 25–30 ...
This porcupine has a short tail which has rattle quills at the end. The rattle quills broaden at the terminal end and the broad portion is hollow with thin walls. When these quills are vibrated, they produce a hiss-like rattle. The front feet of the crested porcupine have four developed and clawed digits with a regressed thumb, the rear feet ...